Balance will never happen regardless of whether they balance around 2s or 3s or 5s, it doesn't matter, in a game of this size and bloat, at least without spell pvp/pve separation, there will be always be X beats Y beats Z.

Player participation in 3s will somewhat be fixed in 5.4 when the region-wide changes go through, looking forward to seeing how that plays out, and looking forward to queuing in to a larger variety of Hunter teams

Balance will never happen regardless of whether they balance around 2s or 3s or 5s, it doesn't matter, in a game of this size and bloat, at least without spell pvp/pve separation, there will be always be X beats Y beats Z.

Player participation in 3s will somewhat be fixed in 5.4 when the region-wide changes go through, looking forward to seeing how that plays out, and looking forward to queuing in to a larger variety of Hunter teams

As a feral/warlock team I will really enjoy playing against hunters =D

Give more rewards to 3's, 2's is completely un-balanced and will never be. It's way to hard to even to think of trying to balance 2's because of how much CC can not be stopped and how much dispels are required more than ever in higher ratings.

They used to try and balance the game around 2s when arena was new. That's when everyone and their dog got interrupts, dispells, and drastic class changes were happening left and right in vast supply.

I'm very glad that they made 2s not matter.

they never tried to balance around 2s they had 2s in mind when balancing; big difference, 5v5 was the original focus but when it got to costly to send a5 person teams to competitions. the focus shifted to 3s before it was dropped outright due to lack of support from blizz

but no 2s was always a niche bracket that tended to exclude half the specs

The game was damn well balanced when 2's were still "balanced around" compared to how it's been since the end of WotLK.

Agree. From the blizzard design point it makes no sense to balance classes solely around 3's viability. They have been slowly casualizing the game and they know players prefer to work in smaller groups so really its just silly. Wow isn't a top e-sport game...time to let go of this 3's balancing BS. You would hope they could balance all brackets pretty evenly but obviously they aren't going to invest the resources needed to do that anymore. The reward system DEfffffffff has to be looked at though. There is absolutely no incentive to form a 3's team with friends who aren't gonna make it to glad. The wow pvp team have just been progressively getting worse. They are so far out of touch with the game its not even funny.

No, 3s are the most coordinated and competitive. 2s are frankly fotm only ( way more so then 3s) and are much easier. Most of the players dont know how to play competitive pvp anyways, so its a silly argument.
Why should those who work harder at it, have more talent, and achiev more in pvp take a back seat in whats being balanced. I would rather 2200+ 3s be perfectly balanced and everything else isnt at all. Even if it benefits a majority more, because then whats their to work to? mastering 2s is learning to walk, while 3s
is learning to run
communism

Originally Posted by Golden Yak

Life Lesson #1 - People are terrible.

Don't let it get to you. It'll only spoil your own personal enjoyment if you do.

Hell no! The 2v2 crybabies ruined everything. PvE used to be so OP till these kids swayed blizz. Stop nerfing PvE over arena! Undo every nerf and make PvE OP again. Then fire Kalgan so GC can have a split with abilities so they work differently depending whether you're flagged or not. That's how it should have been day one! If something is too OP for PvP adjust THAT part of the ability so it doesn't affect PvE. If something is too OP for PvE?....lol...its SUPPOSED to be OP! Leave it the hell alone!

They don't even balance this game around 3's. When they balance pvp, they look at RBG's first and arena's second. Look at the unneeded damage reduction nerfs to locks, shadow, Balance. Blizzard only cares about RBG's when it comes to pvp. Everything else is just piled on and people just adapt to whatever is good every patch.